|
|
 | | From: | Yurk Yurk | | Subject: | Configuration request - use space on menu bar | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:33:43 +1000 |
|
|
 | One of the things I love about Firefox is the ability to use the blank
space on the Menu bar (next to File, Edit, View, etc).
I do all I can to maximise screen space, and it just seems logical to be
able to put buttons or bookmarks or something up there. In FF I had about
a dozen bookmarks there (shown just as favicons). This meant I didn't need
to waste space with a bookmark toolbar.
Possible?
|
|
| | From: | Steven V. Gunhouse | | Subject: | Re: Configuration request - use space on menu bar | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:47:53 GMT |
|
|
| On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:33:43 +1000, Yurk Yurk
wrote:
> One of the things I love about Firefox is the ability to use the blank
> space on the Menu bar (next to File, Edit, View, etc).
>
> I do all I can to maximise screen space, and it just seems logical to be
> able to put buttons or bookmarks or something up there. In FF I had about
> a dozen bookmarks there (shown just as favicons). This meant I didn't
> need
> to waste space with a bookmark toolbar.
>
> Possible?
Not exactly...
The menu bar is actually handled differently in Opera, it is one of the
few places where they actually use Qt (that and some of the dialogs). Can
you put buttons onto the menu bar in any KDE application? No.
However, you can do the reverse. You can have buttons which display menus.
Some users put the entire menu bar onto a single button, and then hide the
menu bar. (Some people also put the menu bar as a submenu on the
right-click menu, but that's another matter).
If you visit a site with Opera buttons like
, you can find buttons for either
the individual menus or for the menu bar on a single button, and then
place them wherever you want. (Be aware, the site may not have buttons for
some of the new menus in 8 beta, such as the Feeds menu.)
So instead of putting buttons on your menu bar, put menus on one of your
other toolbars and then turn off the original menu bar!
--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
|
|
| | From: | Yurk Yurk | | Subject: | Re: Configuration request - use space on menu bar | | Date: | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:40:09 +1000 |
|
|
| > If you visit a site with Opera buttons like
> , you can find buttons for either
> the individual menus or for the menu bar on a single button, and then
> place them wherever you want. (Be aware, the site may not have buttons for
> some of the new menus in 8 beta, such as the Feeds menu.)
>
> So instead of putting buttons on your menu bar, put menus on one of your
> other toolbars and then turn off the original menu bar!
I tried this but was unable to turn off the original menu bar. According
to the site, Ctrl-F11 should do it but that didn't work for me. I'm using
KDE if that makes any difference.
|
|
| | From: | Robt. W. Fletcher Jr | | Subject: | Re: Configuration request - use space on menu bar | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:58:01 -0800 |
|
|
| Yurk Yurk writes:
>> If you visit a site with Opera buttons like
>>
>> , you can find buttons for
>> either the individual menus or for the menu bar on a single button,
>> and then place them wherever you want. (Be aware, the site may not
>> have buttons for some of the new menus in 8 beta, such as the Feeds
>> menu.)
>>
>> So instead of putting buttons on your menu bar, put menus on one of
>> your other toolbars and then turn off the original menu bar!
>
> I tried this but was unable to turn off the original menu
> bar. According to the site, Ctrl-F11 should do it but that didn't
> work for me. I'm using KDE if that makes any difference.
My ~/.opera/opera6.ini file has the following line
Show Menu=1
maybe change the 1 to a 0?
--
-rwf
|
|
| | From: | Steven V. Gunhouse | | Subject: | Re: Configuration request - use space on menu bar | | Date: | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:10:09 GMT |
|
|
| On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:58:01 -0800, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr wrote:
> Yurk Yurk writes:
>
>>> If you visit a site with Opera buttons like
>>>
>>> , you can find buttons for
>>> either the individual menus or for the menu bar on a single button,
>>> and then place them wherever you want. (Be aware, the site may not
>>> have buttons for some of the new menus in 8 beta, such as the Feeds
>>> menu.)
>>>
>>> So instead of putting buttons on your menu bar, put menus on one of
>>> your other toolbars and then turn off the original menu bar!
>>
>> I tried this but was unable to turn off the original menu
>> bar. According to the site, Ctrl-F11 should do it but that didn't
>> work for me. I'm using KDE if that makes any difference.
>
> My ~/.opera/opera6.ini file has the following line
>
> Show Menu=1
>
> maybe change the 1 to a 0?
>
You're using KDE, huh? In most distros, the default setup of KDE reserves
Ctr1-F1 through Ctrl-F12 to switch desktops, even if you only have 4
desktops Opera never sees Ctrl-F11.
In 7.5x there's an option under View, Toolbars for Menu bar. (Note that in
Linux even if the menu bar is hidden, you can still use Alt-V to access
the View menu, etc.) If you're using 8.0 B1 that option is no longer
there, but they did define Alt-F11 to also toggle the menu bar. One of
those two will also work.
Or of course you can go to the KDE Control Center, Accessibility, Keyboard
Shortcuts and change some of the keys which KDE reserves ...
--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
|
|
|
